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Hey i've attempted many times to install the inf before the drivers but it don't work.. it tells me i can't install it... I'm on a macbook pro 13 latest with nvidia 320 m and i'm trying to install the nvidia driver 197.16... Please help me

EDIT: Nevermind it work with the latest drivers..
 
Using 197.45 drivers on windows 7 x64 and MSI Afterburner set to max setting (585/1235) I managed a 5243 3dmark 06 score.

I have the 2.4ghz 4gb ram 2010 mbp 13.
 
Same setup except I switched to Nvidia System Tools and using 620mhz Core / 1280mhz Shader I got 5334 score. :)

I will try to do some stability testing to find the maximum OC and see how high I can get the benchmarks.
 
Using ATItool 630mhz on the core started causing small artifacts (1 dot). At 1360mhz on the shader, there was considerable artifacts in ATItool.

I settled on 625mhz core and 1340mhz shader which led to a 3dmark 06 score of 5401.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

This is a artifact-free number.
 
The newest nVidia drivers do seem to help. I will say however that all my of my testing with overclocking so far with the 320m has been... well... wonky at best. It seems the nVidia system tool will muck around with the VRAM timings even if you do not touch them. Now this normally would not be a problem however the 320m has no dedicated VRAM. It uses system ram in place of dedicated VRAM. (and much better than any IGP I have ever seen) I found that sometimes I got a very nice boost and more often than not a crash shortly after.

NOTE: I have not tried overclocking with the stock BootCamp drivers. Only a couple versions of the newest nVidia drivers.
 
Would Nvidia 257.21 be the best driver for the 320m?

I've been using the 258.96 driver from the Nvidia website and it runs stable at 625Mhz Core and 1340Mhz Shader.

The setup is Windows 7 64-Bit w/ Nvidia System Tools and the recommended fan tool installed.

Starcraft II can run on high on my 13" screen or plugged into a 24" (1920x1080) screen I have.
 
I've been using the 258.96 driver from the Nvidia website and it runs stable at 625Mhz Core and 1340Mhz Shader.

The setup is Windows 7 64-Bit w/ Nvidia System Tools and the recommended fan tool installed.

Starcraft II can run on high on my 13" screen or plugged into a 24" (1920x1080) screen I have.

You're welcome for the clock speeds :D
 
Do these overclock settings carry over into OS X? Would it be possible to do it natively through OS X?
 
These won't carry over in OSX unless of course you use nvflash and hard flash the video bios with a modified one vs. the soft flash that people are currently doing in windows. Only problem is I've tried extracting the factory BIOS using nvflash, that way I can modify it using nibitor, but when I go to extract the BIOS I get I get something along the lines of,

Identifying EEPROM...
EEPROM ID (20,0000) : Unknown

ERROR: Supported EEPROM not found

So basically it's like nvflash doesn't have access to the 320m. Hopefully someone with more knowledge than I do sees this and can possibly come up with a solution. I would love to be able to hard overclock the 320m. Also btw I tried doing this using Freedos, I don't think it would make a difference but maybe I'm wrong.
 
to the OP have you tried running black ops? If so post results pls

Black ops runs on medium to high settings from what I remember before I deleted it. It looked absolutely stunning without any overclock, so my guess is that with the overclock, you'll at least be able to turn the majority of settings on HIGH -- which frikin rocks.


Time for a replay!

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Here is Nvidia Inspector. Solid program. No problems. 1.9.4.4 is the latest version. I have the latest Nvidia drivers running as well for all you people who are curious about updating to the most recent drivers. They work. Well.
 
tbdmgr.exe conflict

So i got all the necessary programs together but when I loaded lubbos it told me that there was a conflict and that it had to kill the process. I proceeded anyways and slide both left and right fan sliders so that they were at a minimum of 3800. I waited a bit but didn't notice a change. I loaded up oblivion and still the fans didn't kick in. I set the max temp to 60 (system was running at 80) and the fans still didn't spin faster.

Any ideas?
 
strange OC problem

hello everyone, i'm trying to do an OC too to my geforce 320m as i used to but since it arrived from the warranty with a new board(wich means new cpu/gpu) that, the OC i used to do without any problems it's not working so well...(i took it to the warranty because of another problem with overvolted USB ports that fried up the board)

when i'm playing any game without OC there is no problems but when i apply the OC, games randomly freeze, than comes a black screen and goes back to the game but with a very poor performance with very low FPS!!

the OC i do is 644core/1359shader on the clocks with EVGA precision and the temperatures stick in 80ºc and when i'm playing with the help of my cooler i get 70ºc so it is not a eat issue

if i restart de OC and the game it doesn't solve the problem.i have to restart the computer for everything to be ok again

can anybody help me with this?

thanks in advance

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So i got all the necessary programs together but when I loaded lubbos it told me that there was a conflict and that it had to kill the process. I proceeded anyways and slide both left and right fan sliders so that they were at a minimum of 3800. I waited a bit but didn't notice a change. I loaded up oblivion and still the fans didn't kick in. I set the max temp to 60 (system was running at 80) and the fans still didn't spin faster.

Any ideas?

i think i had that problem too...it might be the version of lubbos try another one.i currently use 1.0.0
 
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hello everyone, i'm trying to do an OC too to my MBP 13's geforce 320m as i used to but since it arrived from the warranty with a new board(wich means new cpu/gpu) that, the OC i used to do without any problems it's not working so well...(i took it to the warranty because of another problem with overvolted USB ports that fried up the board)

when i'm playing any game without OC there is no problems but when i apply the OC, games randomly freeze, than comes a black screen and goes back to the game but with a very poor performance with very low FPS!!

the OC i do is 644core/1359shader on the clocks with EVGA precision and the temperatures stick in 80ºc and when i'm playing with the help of my cooler i get 70ºc so it is not a eat issue
Maximum allowed core and shader frequencies vary between systems. I've never been able to overclock my NVidia GeForce 320M (MacBook Pro 2010 13" 2.66 GHz) beyond 585 / 1235 MHz without stability issues when gaming. MSI Afterburner is a good choice for overclocking in Windows.

Try reducing your frequencies somewhat and you should be fine. I don't recall anyone having been able to raise their core voltage to 644 MHz: That's a 43% increase over the 450 MHz default frequency! With 585 / 1235 MHz settings I was able to achieve a 3D Mark 06 score of 5400, which is pretty impressive for an IGP. That's why I've stayed away from the current 13" models, and even the upcoming HD 4000 in Ivy Bridge probably won't top that score by enough to warrant an upgrade.
 
Maximum allowed core and shader frequencies vary between systems. I've never been able to overclock my NVidia GeForce 320M (MacBook Pro 2010 13" 2.66 GHz) beyond 585 / 1235 MHz without stability issues when gaming. MSI Afterburner is a good choice for overclocking in Windows.

Try reducing your frequencies somewhat and you should be fine. I don't recall anyone having been able to raise their core voltage to 644 MHz: That's a 43% increase over the 450 MHz default frequency! With 585 / 1235 MHz settings I was able to achieve a 3D Mark 06 score of 5400, which is pretty impressive for an IGP. That's why I've stayed away from the current 13" models, and even the upcoming HD 4000 in Ivy Bridge probably won't top that score by enough to warrant an upgrade.

thank you for your opinion!!=)

hmm...i was afraid of that...damn it :p so now my problem is a not so good system compared to the original one...btw my mbp it's the same of yours and i too prefer this one over the new ones because of de GPU!

before i took it to the warranty i had no problems with that OC for sure! i too was amazed by the OC i could do! precisely because i've never seen anybody posting a OC like that on the net! i ran many tests with 3Dmark 06 to achieve those clocks with safety.

when i started to see artifacts on the screen i new it was it's limit so i decreased the core frequencies to those ones(btw i use to do the OC with the core/shader linked so the are in sync) and i never had problems until now,but the strange thing is that with these new hardware, when i was testing(this time with 3Dmark advantage) i only start to saw the artifacts on the screen ate the same frequencies of the other tests with the first system before this new one.

so i don't understand how can this new GPU/system not be able to support the OC i do...(btw the score in the 3Dmark advantage is 8451 points and i have been able to play assassin's creed brotherhood without that freezing issue (until now...), just the rest of the games like fable 3 and medal of honor 2010 have failed...)

when the freeze happens the core clock drop below to 450 witch is it's original top frequency and the shader to 810 but the tit's top frequency is 950.and to put everything back to normal i need to rester the computer...

there was this guy who told me that it could be an automatic reset to the drivers or GPU... i already re-installed the drivers,tried the original ones,reinstalled the OC program and even the windows!but nothing seems to help...the guy who told me that, said also that this problem of freezing usually happens to him when he is testing voltages on GPU/CPU/MEM. etc...=/

so, could this be a voltage problem? i also read about people that were getting unstable OC because of insufficient voltage...the voltage of mine is 9.000v

so that's all for now from me guys,i hope you can give me a little help with this!

thanks again ssn637!;)
 
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Well, I've never tried to raise the voltage, but remember reading that some are doing this with their 6750M using ATI Tray Tool. Seems kinda scary, though, but for what it's worth my GPU-Z also reports 0.9000V on the 320M. Don't know if MSI Afterburner can raise default voltages...
 
Well, I've never tried to raise the voltage, but remember reading that some are doing this with their 6750M using ATI Tray Tool. Seems kinda scary, though, but for what it's worth my GPU-Z also reports 0.9000V on the 320M. Don't know if MSI Afterburner can raise default voltages...


yeah it was on that topic that i read that! and as i don't know anything about voltages(actually my mac had to go to warranty because of a stupid innocent tentative of putting an external HDD transferring files faster by plug in an AC power adapter to it and because of that frying the USB ports XDD luckily they didn't know, so they replaced the board XD but i wished it didn't happen... )

well lets see what people here say about this because it would be nice to see such rare problem to have a solution!
 
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whats up people!guess what,i manage to discover the solution to my problem and it was a very simple yet strange think to do!

i started to do some more benchmarking tests and i realized that the freezing issue was related to de core clock! so i decreased the core clock just a little bit and it was done!no more problems while gaming! i tried as well to increase the shader clock to see if i could compensate the the core clock decrease and i really did!

now i'm using an 630core/1410shader OC with 8521 points on 3Dmark vantage with the "entry"settings test (there are 5 types:custom,entry,performance,high and extreme) but with the resolution changed to 1280x800 instead of the default 1024x768 config. i also deselected the CPU tests and the features tests. i just ran the GPU tests.

i can play medal of honor 2010 at maximum no AA no Vsync with a minimum of 25 and a maximum 30/40+ FPS

even so, i steel don't understand why this new GPU can't handle the same core clock(644) i used to do since it's the same model...

hope this will help someone in the future

thanks again ssn637! you were a great help too!

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Maximum allowed core and shader frequencies vary between systems. I've never been able to overclock my NVidia GeForce 320M (MacBook Pro 2010 13" 2.66 GHz) beyond 585 / 1235 MHz without stability issues when gaming. MSI Afterburner is a good choice for overclocking in Windows.

Try reducing your frequencies somewhat and you should be fine. I don't recall anyone having been able to raise their core voltage to 644 MHz: That's a 43% increase over the 450 MHz default frequency! With 585 / 1235 MHz settings I was able to achieve a 3D Mark 06 score of 5400, which is pretty impressive for an IGP. That's why I've stayed away from the current 13" models, and even the upcoming HD 4000 in Ivy Bridge probably won't top that score by enough to warrant an upgrade.

btw the msi afterburner doesn't let you rise the OC over 585/1235 !!if you want to achieve more like me use the evga precision program!
 
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my 320m runs stable with shader at 1400, trying 1500 (skyrim) and is there anyway to increase the vram?? since its shared??
 
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